The House of Styx
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Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home.
In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of la colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankindтАЩs hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving.
But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind that shouldnтАЩt exist.
And the House of Styx wants to harness it.
тАЬK├╝nskenтАЩs vivid worldbuilding is a knockoutтАжThis is a must-readтАЭ тАУ Publishers Weekly, starred review
тАЬAn audacious con job, scintillating future technology, and meditations on the nature of fractured humanityтАЭ - Yoon Ha Lee on The Quantum Magician
┬атАЬTechnology changes usтАФeven our bodiesтАФin fundamental ways, and K├╝nsken handles this wonderfullyтАЭ - Cixin Liu on The Quantum Magician
тАЬK├╝nsken has a wonderfully ingenious imagination.тАЭ тАУ Adam Roberts, Locus
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Derek K├╝nsken has built genetically engineered viruses, worked with street children and refugees in Latin America, served as a Canadian diplomat, and, most importantly, taught his son about super-heroes and science. His short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and multiple times in AsimovтАЩs Science Fiction. His stories have been adapted into audio podcasts, reprinted in various YearтАЩs Best anthologies, and translated into multiple languages. They have also been short-listed for various awards, and won the AsimovтАЩs ReadersтАЩ Award in 2013. He tweets from @derekkunsken, blogs at BlackGate.com, and makes his internet home at DerekKunsken.com.
